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Festival
| Middle of May | Otabi Festival | (Ubashi Shrine Motoori hiyoshi Shrine) |
| Middle of May | All-Japan
Children's Kabuki Festival in Komatsu | (Komatsu Civic Auditorium) |
| June 4 and 5 | Syoubuyu Festival | (Awazu Hot Springs) |
| June 5 | Lord Toshitsune Miyawatari Festival
(Commerce and Industry Festival) | Komatsu Tenmangu (Shrine) |
| Middle of June | Hanashobu Festival | Kibagata Park |
| End of July | Kabuto Festival | Tada Shrine |
| End of August | Osh-shobe Festival | Awazu Hot Springs |
| August 26 to 28 | Suika Festival | Ubashi Shrine |
| August or Septermber | Aviation Festival | Japan Air
SelfDefence Force Komatsu Base |
| September 7 to 9 | Ataka Festival | Ataka Sumiyoshi Shrine |
| September 16 | Akuma-barai Ceremony | Mukaimoto-ori Hakusan Shrine |
| Saturday and Sunday in October | Don-don Festival | Komatsu City |
| Beginning of October | Kibagata Park Festival | Kibagata Park |
| October | Okuradake Plateau
Cosmos Festival | Okuradake Plateau Ski Resort |
Otabi Festival (Old city of Komatsu)
| This festival, which is held every year in mid-May, is one of the three greatest festivals of Ishikawa, along with Kanazawa Hyakumangoku Festival and Nanao Seihaku Festival. Magnificent floats from eight towns of the city and Hikiyama children's kabuki performed on floats from two towns are the festival's greatest attractions. The excitement and beauty of the festival reach their peak in the evening. Kabuki performances by children are held throughout the festival. |  |
Osh-shobe Festival (Awazu Hot Springs)
| Around the end of August, the Osh-shobe dance contest is held to the strains of the Awazu folk song, Osh-shobe-bushi. The teams, who wear matching outfits and come from every area of the city and every hot spring inn to show off their dancing, are a delight to watch. In the evening, when the beautiful festival lanterns are lit, the festive mood takes over the entire city. |  |
Don-don Festival (Komatsu City)
| This festival got its name from the fact that large taiko drums are often played in this area It represents a desire of citizens to get to know their traditional culture and to create new culture in order to develop the city in all its aspects. |  |
Akuma-barai Ceremony (Mukaimoto-ori Town, Hakusan Shrine)
| Every year on September 16, at the exorcism ceremony held on the night of Hakusan Shrine's autumn festival, a person wearing a male mask like a demon mask and somebody disguised as a pregnant woman with a female mask dance madly by the light of the moon. It is a very powerful scene. |  |
Ataka Festival (Ataka Town)
A huge float in the form of a boat carrying the Seven Gods of Fortune is paraded around the town. In the evening a lot of unmarried young women around 20 years of age wearing red kimonos with their hair up in Japanese-style, dance in a circle.
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